Crystallization-Study of Numbers (2)
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Message Three
The Change of Our Diet to the Heavenly Christ as the Reality of the Heavenly Manna
So That We May Be Reconstituted with Christ to Become God’s Dwelling Place
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to inhabitable land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.—Exo.16:35.
As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.一John.6:57.
Word of Appetizer
For forty years God gave the children of Israel nothing to eat but manna ;What does this indicate?
this shows that God’s intention in His salvation is to work Himself into the believers in Christ and to change their constitution by feeding them with Christ as their unique heavenly food, thereby qualifying them to build up the church as God’s dwelling place; in fact, after being reconstituted with Christ, the believers themselves become the dwelling place of God.
How marvelous it was that God gave the people nothing except manna; this indicates that He gave them nothing except Christ; may the Lord take away the desire and hunger for anything other than Christ!
Spiritual Burden
God wants to change our diet to a diet of Christ as the real manna sent by God the Father for God’s chosen people to be reconstituted with Christ and to live because of Christ to become God’s dwelling place.
Christ as our unique food, our daily manna, for our metabolic transformation.
Whatever we eat, digest, and assimilate of Christ will be an eternal memorial; what we shall recall concerning Christ in eternity will have two aspects: the aspect of the enjoyment of Christ as our reconstituting element and the aspect of Christ as the supply to make us God’s dwelling place in the universe.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
The heavenly Christ is the reality of the heavenly manna sent by God to be the daily life supply of His chosen people.
God wants to change our diet to a diet of Christ as the real manna sent by God the Father for God’s chosen people to be reconstituted with Christ and to live because of Christ to become God’s dwelling place.
We need to see and experience the characteristics of Christ as our unique food, our daily manna, for our metabolic transformation.
Manna is good for making cakes, indicating that Christ is like fine cakes good for nourishment.
The Experience of Life
Along with the change of diet, we need a change of appetite; the Lord Jesus said, “Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life”; We all should be able to say, “The Lord is the only One who satisfies me. Apart from Him, I have no satisfaction. I am daily strengthened and sustained by Christ. He is the only food on which I rely.”
Manna comes with the dew, which signifies the Lord’s refreshing and watering grace brought in by His fresh compassions; grace is God reaching us to refresh us and water us.
Practice and Application
We eat the Lord Jesus as our spiritual food, receiving Him as the Spirit who gives life, by eating His words of spirit and life, receiving His words by means of all prayer; When we receive His words by exercising our spirit, we get the Spirit who gives life; after gathering Christ as manna, we must prepare Him for our eating by “grinding, beating, and boiling” Him in the situations and circumstances of our daily living.
You can become an overcomer by enjoying Christ as manna. Eat the open manna, and Christ will become the hidden manna. This hidden manna will constitute you into an overcomer”.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
……My Father gives you the true bread out of heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world. -John.6:32~33.
I am the bread of life. -48.
As the living Father has sent Me and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me.- 57.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.– 63.
I. The heavenly Christ is the reality of the heavenly manna
II.so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me
. He is the heavenly bread as the bread that came down out of heaven; He is the bread of God as the One who is of God, who was sent by God, and who was with God.
. He is the bread of life as the bread with eternal life; He is the living bread; this refers to the condition of the bread, which is living; He is the true bread; He is the true food, and all other foods are merely shadows of Him as the real food.
.To eat is to take food into us that it may be assimilated organically into our body; hence, to eat the Lord Jesus is to receive Him into us that He may be assimilated by the regenerated new man in the way of life.
. We live not merely by Christ but because of Christ as our energizing element and supplying factor.
. We eat the Lord Jesus as our spiritual food, receiving Him as the Spirit who gives life, by eating His words of spirit and life, receiving His words by means of all prayer.
Key Verses (2)
And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to inhabitable land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.-Exo.16:35.
But now our appetite has gone; there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.-Num.11:6.
I am the living bread which came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever; ………-John.6:51.
Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you………-27.
III. God wants to change our diet to a diet of Christ as the real manna sent by God the Father for God’s chosen people to be reconstituted with Christ and to live because of Christ to become God’s dwelling place
. Although God’s people had been brought out of Egypt into the wilderness of separation, they were still constituted with the element of Egypt, signifying the world; The Egyptian diet denotes all the things that we desire to feed on in order to find satisfaction.
. For forty years God gave the children of Israel nothing to eat but manna; this shows that God’s intention in His salvation is to work Himself into the believers in Christ and to change their constitution by feeding them with Christ as their unique heavenly food, thereby qualifying them to build up the church as God’s dwelling place.
. On the one hand, the heavenly manna nourishes us and heals us; on the other hand, it eliminates the negative things in us; He gave them nothing except Christ; By feeding on manna, God’s people eventually became manna.
. Along with the change of diet, we need a change of appetite; The unique food that we take for our sustenance, strength, and satisfaction must be Christ, and the one unique ministry in the New Testament conveys Christ as the unique food for God’s people.
Key Verses (3)
And they gathered it morning by morning, each one according to his eating; and when the sun became hot, it melted.-Exo.16:21.
And when the layer of dew lifted, there upon the surface of the wilderness were fine round flakes, fine as the frost on the earth.-14.
And the house of Israel called its name manna, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers made with honey. And Moses said, This is what Jehovah has commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out from the land of Egypt. -31 ~ 32.
……To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and to him I will give a white stone,……-Rev.2:17.
IV. We need to see and experience the characteristics of Christ as our unique food, our daily manna, for our metabolic transformation
V. The open manna and the hidden manna
. Manna is a mystery; Manna is a long-term miracle; Manna is from heaven; Manna comes with the dew; Manna comes in the morning.
. Manna is small, fine、 round、 white、solid.
. Manna is like frost、like coriander seed、appearance is like that of bdellium、taste is like that of cakes baked in oil、taste is like that of wafers made with honey、good for making cakes.
. The open manna is manna that we have not eaten, whereas the hidden manna refers to manna that we have eaten, digested, and assimilated.
. “Do not think that it is impossible for you to be an overcomer. You can become an overcomer by enjoying Christ as manna. Eat the open manna, and Christ will become the hidden manna. This hidden manna will constitute you into an overcomer”.
. Whatever we eat, digest, and assimilate of Christ will be an eternal memorial.
. Just as the manna in the golden pot was the focal point of God’s dwelling place, so Christ as the manna eaten by us is the focal point of God’s building today.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1 The heavenly Christ is the reality of the heavenly manna（John.6:31~35、51）
（Explain according to the verse above Please illustrate that Christ tis heavenly bread、bread of God、.bread of life、living bread、true bread.）
T2 so he who eats Me, he also shall live because of Me…（John.6:57b）
（Please illustrate that What is the difference between living by Christ and living because of Christ .）
D2
T1 Christ should be our unique diet, and we should live by Him.（Num.11:6）
（Why God wants to change our diet, What is God’s intention? ）
T2 Christ is the unique heavenly food supplied by God(Exo.16:35）
（For forty years God gave the children of Israel nothing to eat but manna，What does it indicate？）
D3
T1 In order for God’s purpose to be accomplished, His people had to be reconstituted with manna.（John.6:27，1Cor.3:16）
（For the building of the church, why we all need to be reconstituted with Christ ?）
T2 Along with the change of diet, we need a change of appetite（John.6:27）
（Please illustrate that we are “Work not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life”.）
D4
T1 Christ as our unique food, our daily manna, for our metabolic transformation（Exo.16:4、21）
（According to point A and B in the outline, explain what it the characteristics of such a Christ that we need to see and experience.）
T2 Christ as our unique food, our daily manna, for our metabolic transformation（Exo.16:13~14）
（According to point A and B in the outline, explain what it the characteristics of such a Christ that we need to see and experience.）
D5
T1 Christ as our unique food, our daily manna, for our metabolic transformation（Exo.16:14）
（According to point A and B in the outline, explain what it the characteristics of such a Christ that we need to see and experience.）
T2 Christ as our unique food, our daily manna, for our metabolic transformation（Num.11:7~8）
（According to point A and B in the outline, explain what it the characteristics of such a Christ that we need to see and experience.）
D6
T1 the hidden manna refers to manna that we have eaten, digested, and assimilated.（Rev.2:17）
（Please illustrate that the hidden manna will constitute you into an overcomer” with experience.）
T2 Whatever we eat, digest, and assimilate of Christ will be an eternal memorial（Exo.16:16、32）
（Please illustrate that what we shall recall concerning Christ in eternity will have two aspects.）
